savetheearth | town meeting, alien breaking hoa rules

"And stay there."

Any challenge to it isn't overt. He's keeping a fine static poker face.

"Wouldn't it be smarter -"

Yes. Octavia is talking about what would be smart. Bear with her.

"- if we like. Personally disposed of the statues first? Before going to break the alien's freaky-freak freakface in? Assuming there're only a few left or whatever. I mean it's the most surefire way to make sure we know they're taken care of, right?"

"Aren't most of them in the subway tunnels anyway?" Neku's pretty sure all the ones not in the subway have been gotten rid of, but. "If we see any out of there, then yeah, we should get rid of them before getting the alien, but otherwise I'm not sure we should be spending a huge hunk of time hunting down all of them." He looks at Proud, not entirely expecting an answer, but it's worth a try. "Do you know how many of them are left?"

He receives an answer. It's an absent "Nuh-uh", either lazy or distracted, and his eyes avert. It almost looks like a roll.

Danny's stayed silent so far, just taking in all the information and trying to figure out what they could possibly do, but suddenly an idea hits him.

"Can we like...lead them out somehow and then get them all to come to one place where they can just blow up safely? Or something like that. Do they have like--snake statue food or something we can lure them to?"

It's the dumbest sentence he's ever spoken in his life and almost immediately he regrets it.

Lily adjusts her glasses a bit, gently speaking up from the back, but audible enough to be heard.

"Either way, if their number isn't known... It would take a considerable amount of time to make certain all of them were taken care of, wouldn't it? Because then you'd have to check."

Suzaku stands some distance away from the rest, arms folded. For some time he remains silent, as others discuss the matter. It isn't that he doesn't have an opinion - far from it, in fact, but he waits.

It's only after a girl with glasses weighs in that he speaks up.

"That's true, we lack intel. The risk of casualties is too great leaving them alone, and we'd need to make an organized sweep to try and eliminate them."

Of course, he had doubts about their overall level of organization.

"If you eliminate them, they still explode," Proud says, leaning back a touch. He scans somewhere just above the eye levels of those gathered. "I didn't tell them to give you a warning for no reason."

Henry had been listening intently to what everyone was saying, worrying about living snake statues. Well he just had something to add. "I don't get it. If they're all in the subway why don't we just block them in there? Make it so they can't get out and so no one else goes wandering to find them."

"That way they won't have to explode and we don't have to worry about them."

Toushirou just shook his head at this. "He said that when they don't have a purpose anymore, they'll explode. That means when No One is gone, they're gonna blow whether we destroy them or not. We can't have them someplace they'll cause so much damage."

It would have been too simple for it to work Henry's way. Much, much better and easier, but too simple for anything that happened in their lives nowadays.

"So can't we just get them to be where NoOne is so when he's gone they take out everything around him? Load bearing boss and all that," Bakura added from the back of the group. "Bonus if we can make it look like the snake statues themselves offed him."

Gerald had been keeping silent for a bit while some of the kids talked, but he decided that he might as well throw his two cents in.

"Now, that's great and everything, but there's the small problem of either getting the statues to No One, or getting No One to the statues without being seen. Unless, of course, someone has teleportation powers, which at this point I really wouldn't be surprised about."

He also really doesn't like the idea of kids being involved in this at all. Shouldn't they be off doing... kid things and not attracting the attention of a corrupt police force with no qualms about killing children.

And, it's dangerously close to vigilanteism. Really, the kids should be staying as hands-off as possible.

Xander remained silent for most of the conversation as well, but he was listening quite intently, that is until the purpose of the snake statues were revealed. Portable bombs that could hurt quite a lot of people when they go off. Just great. He sent a glare at David Proud, as horrible, sadistic thoughts started to circulate through his brain.

Except, that wouldn't get him anywhere and leave a horrible first impression to most of the network members gathered here. So, he takes a moment to recompose himself and glances over to Gerald. The man had said something that was relevant to what he could do.

"It could be possible to get 'No One' to the statues, depending on their location." He states. "If we were to do the opposite, by bringing the statues to 'No One', there would be a lot more risk involved. We don't know if one statue would detonate upon its arrival, harming the carrier in the process."

Then again, he wasn't even sure if someone who could 'teleport' and have to compensate for the weight of the statues. He's never traveled by the shadows with a heavy object before and a part of him didn't want to. But, he wasn't going to let a child volunteer themselves for a suicide mission.

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"Which means having No One in the city with us." Proud's active attention locks on the last speaker. "We won't do that."

"Psst. Hey. Guys."

That theatrical stage whisper is a clear sign that the adult brigade's time is over. Make way for Captain Obnoxious.

"I'm like. Legit immortal! So if we go with the break-the-statues-before-visiting-the-alien thing I can volunteer to do it. 'Cause I won't get exploded and junk if I don't run away in time! And that way we're not being gross sneaks who kill the alien by exploding it without even talking to it first. Which is pretty fucking unconscionable and stuff."

Geez, guys. Everybody knows that a tense and dramatic scene in which the heroes confront the bad guy and he spills all his secrets is a necessity in any decent story. Octavia already has a bunch of one-liners prepared for it and everything.

So...second immortal they had in the numbers club. Okay. He could deal with that. But, not the point. Statues were the point right now. They couldn't go killing this No One, for the fact that it was wrong. But the statues would end up still being a problem if they exploded.

But, Henry had another thing to contribute. "Well, I might be able to just Believe all the statues away? You know, if my power gets any stronger. But, we're probably on a tight schedule."

"Okay, first off I wanna note that Tavia's plan is fuckin' terrible."

Roxy has finally decided to interject, because allowing Tavia to be dumb actually causes her physical pain.

It's a condition.

"Second - do we know how intense these're gonna be? Like, if they just kinda burst, they probably wouldn't cause too much damage down in the subway 'cuz shrapnel's not super destructive. If there's like, legit fire and heat and stuff, that'd be different."

"I think we can all agree it's bad," Kari sighed. "But we do need to take these things out, though the alien's the more important objective."

"If they're going to cause significant damage once we get that far, then it's just as important, isn't it?" Lily spoke up again.

She frowned.

"I mean... if they go off all at once, just how bad is that going to be on a grand scale?"

So Kotetsu's been listening up until now--a little uncomfortably, because he still really doesn't like the idea of killing anyone, but the safety of the network (and the whole planet, really) takes precedence. But when it becomes clear that there doesn't seem to be a good solution to the statues problem, he decides to chime in with his own thoughts.

"The statues only blow up if No One dies, right? What if--he doesn't die? I mean like, taking him as a prisoner, or something. Maybe we could use 'im as some sorta bargaining chip. Or get it leaked to the media like we did with the water."

Like many people, the Dians had kept quiet. Save the way they turned their entire body to look at who was speaking, they were.... fairly inconspicuous.

Neither of them were big fans of letting anyone die if there was a way to avoid it. So they happily jump on this topic of discussion!

"That's a phenomenal idea!"

"Get the alien leaders to listen to what we have to say!"

"Start debating diplomacy!"

"Get the world on our side!"

Suzaku has to admit to himself that it's a possibility not yet explored. And although what's been happening to them has been far from kind, a possibility of less casualties is always preferable.

To that end...

"If it's possible to detain them, that'd simplify things somewhat. Provided those statues can be neutralized in an exchange like that."

"'Neutralized' how?" His tone's come rubbed a tad sharper. "We can't neutralize them. I set them. They explode or No One dies, and we are not letting No One live."

He's not up for openness to negotiation on that point.

"Trap them somewhere?" Sophie doesn't really have an idea there, but she did want to sort of bring up one point. "I can probably try to tell you all where whatever's left is, statue-wise. They're mostly made of rock, and they're mostly underground or at least touching ground, right? So finding the statues shouldn't be that big a deal."

That was it. That was the point she wanted to bring up, since they did have a moment of 'but how many are left' before. "We could probably count 'em up that way."

...Having contributed (sort of), she lapses back into silence for the moment, one foot tapping out a regular rhythm on the floor.

"Hm. So we need to take them all out."

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